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Takeaways from Night 4 of the 2022 World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing

William Byron celebrates winning the Clyde Hart Memorial 100 Super Late Model race during the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at Florida's New Smyrna Speedway on Feb. 14, 2022. (Adam Glanzman/NASCAR)

William Byron's first words in his Victory Lane interview Monday night at Florida's New Smyrna Speedway quickly and perfectly explained why he spent the first day of 2022 Daytona 500 week competing in the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing. "It's just so much fun," the 24-year-old NASCAR Cup Series driver told FloRacing." The racing is so hard." Byron won Monday night's Clyde Hart Memorial Super Late Model 100 on Night 4 of the World Series of Asphalt as he prepares to start his fifth season racing for Hendrick Motorsports in the Cup Series. He did so thanks to a clutch final restart with just four laps to go on the half-mile paved oval located just 12 miles south of Daytona International Speedway. RELATEDWatch World Series of Asphalt live on FloRacing Byron got a solid jump on the restart, but Gabe Sommers battled back to make the battle for the lead a two-wide endeavor heading into the penultimate lap. Contact between the two allowed Byron to pull ahead for good. “(Sommers) raced me great,” Byron said. “I felt like he was a little quicker and doing a better job throughout that middle portion of the race. I didn't have enough turn, and I kept trying to search. Ultimately just got a good restart to race side-by-side I felt like forever. He gave me a little shot into Turn 1, but overall it was really fun. Byron, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, became the first non-Floridian to win the Clyde Hart Memorial 100 since Steve Wallace took the checkered flag in the event in 2014. Sommers, Sammy Smith, Derek Griffith and Justin Mondeik rounded out the top five. Byron said he hopes to run at least seven more Super Late Model races in 2022 on top of his Cup Series schedule. Below are more highlights from Monday's Night 4 of World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing action: Tuesday's Night 5 action at the World Series of Asphalt features the ARCA Menards Series East's season-opener, the Race to Stop Suicide 200 presented by Place of Hope. Racing is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET and can be viewed live on FloRacing.